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Quotes About Exotic

I love anything leopard print, but sometimes an all over print can be a bit much.
~ Ashley Madekwe
First Globals are ready to go anywhere, experience everything, and work and live in exotic places, and for them, family life takes priority over work life and a flexible, diverse, collaborative, fun learning environment is key.
~ Susan Scott
The more remote or exotic the place, the more likely we are to have full frontal views of the dead and dying.
~ Susan Sontag
La fotografía, que tiene tantos usos narcisistas, también es un instrumento poderoso para despersonalizar nuestra relación con el mundo; y ambos usos son complementarios. Como unos binoculares cuyos extremos pueden confundirse, la cámara vuelve íntimas y cercanas las cosas exóticas, y pequeñas, abstractas, extrañas y lejanas las cosas familiares.
~ Susan Sontag
A parade of servers came through with domed platters of incredible food---handmade Chinese dumplings and dim sum shaped like tiny pomegranates and tangerines, gorgeously presented noodles in every color of the rainbow, and dishes with ingredients Natalie could only guess at. A red tea called Da Hong Pao was served, and one of the people at the table said it was so rare that it couldn't be bought for any price but had to be received as a gift.
~ Susan Wiggs
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Women fell in love with Mary. They thought of her as unattainably beautiful and adopted as many of her mannerisms as they could. It didn't matter to them that she lacked that element, raw and beckoning, that trailed like a vapor after Gabrielle. There was an exotic, ladylike essence in Mary that stunned women who understood just what utter waxlike, blossom perfection she was.
~ Eve Babitz
sómente direi que em duas noites que aqui estivemos surtos, nos não davamos por seguros dos lagartos, baldas, peixes e serpentes que de dia tinhamos visto, porque erão tantos os uivos, os assopros c os roncos, e na praia os rinchos dos cavaltos marinhos, que eu me não atrevo a podêl-o declarar com palavras.
~ Fernão Mendes Pinto
We never sought exotic forms of discomfort; they were part of a package deal that came with our homeland.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
If a film needed an exotic backdrop… Chinatown could be made to represent itself or any other Chinatown in the world. Even today, it stands in for the ambiguous Asian anywhere.
~ Bonnie Tsui
Gastar dinero en: máquinas para hacer pasta, máquinas para hacer helados, u otros aparatos culinarios que nunca utilizaré; libros de autores ilegibles para colocar presuntuosamente en las estanterías; ropa interior exótica, ya que, al no tener novio, carece de sentido.
~ Helen Fielding
There is nothing wrong with professional pet owners and private breeders of exotic animals. And I would be the first to fight to take away an animal from an irresponsible owner.
~ Joe Exotic
If there's one thing I've learned after a lifetime of dining on delicacies like blood pudding, sea squirts, and camel kidneys, even folks who wouldn't come within 100 yards of a Cambodian tarantula want to hear what it's like to chomp on one!
~ Andrew Zimmern
Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
~ Douglas Hodge
I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
~ Dana Goodyear
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.
~ Geraldine Jewsbury
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.
~ Michael Crichton
The moment Salomon Brothers demonstrated the potential gains to be had from turning an investment bank into a public corporation and leveraging its balance sheet with exotic risks, the psychological foundations of Wall Street shifted, from trust to blind faith.
~ Michael Lewis
I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.
~ Alana Haim
You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.
~ Jeaniene Frost
It takes a special kind of vigilance to make your way across a continent where people voluntarily ingest tongues, kidneys, horsemeat, frogs' legs, intestines, sausages made of congealed blood, and the brains of little cows.
~ Bill Bryson
L.A. is such an exotic city to me, and it is just a big bubble. If you accept the bubble and accept how isolated it is. It can be a very creative place, and I find it easy to focus.
~ Erik Hassle
I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!
~ Tom Felton
One of my favorite things is to try delicious different fruits from different places, in Japan or other places that have different fruits you can't get in the States.
~ Banks